Firearms in the home must be stored unloaded and disassembled, and secured with either a trigger lock, gun safe, or similar device. The new law will allow an exception for a firearm while it is being used against an intruder in the home.

How is that different from what they alleged their laws were pre-Heller?

And it looks like they’re also sticking with the written test. Kinda like literacy tests? Next they need a poll tax.

Great. Next, DC is going to draft legislation that makes it illegal for a criminal to not wait patiently for five minutes upon invading a home, that way the homeowner has a chance to assemble their firearm and defend themselves when the crime resumes.

Criminal: “Hand over all of your money.”

Homeowner: “Okay. Does … does my five minutes start now? You can help yourself to anything in the fridge in the meantime.”

Criminal: “Thanks. Just let me know when you’re ready. By the way … lovely window treatments!”

The licensing FEE, the fingerprint FEE, the FEE charged to supply a photo, the “balllistic testing” FEE are ALL UNCONSTITUTIONAL! Ever heard of a POLL TAX? Plus a “literacy test” and “Vision test” before you are “eligible” for a LICENSE to exercise an INDIVIDUAL RIGHT? Jim Crow is back, but this time it’s BLACKS creating the laws.

Also the CONTINUED BAN on semi-autos is blatantly unconstitutional. I just hope some legal beagles will get involved and get the district judge to issue a writ of mandamus to require DC to follow the law, with a $1 million fine PER DAY for continued non-compliance.

In other news, I talked to my DC friend who works for the Shakespeare Theatre Co. They use their FFL for curios and relic weapons used for stage purposes and for pyrotechnics; apparently they can’t or won’t do transfers and that’s ok.

Different kind of license perhaps?

I don’t know enough about FFLs to speculate, but I am curious to know if we’re going after Josh Sugarmann’s FFL–has it been determined for sure that they’re breaking the rules by not doing transfers?